Parkstone nr. Poole

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B01: design element - patterns - fluted

INFORMATION

FontID: 11356PAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church St. Osmund [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saints: St. Osmund [aka Osmer, Osmond, Osmund of Salisbury]
Country Name: England
Location: Dorset, South West
Directions to Site: Located on Bournemouth Rd., in the eastern suburbs of Poole
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Noted in the 3rd ed. of Hutchins (1973 c1861-1874): "The font is a stone basin on a shaft." Listed in Long (1923) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Newman & Pevsner (1972) write: "Font, a fluted bowl from Sturminster Marshall, probably C13, on a base by Prior" [i.e., Edward Schröeder Prior, academic and art historian, co-designer of St. Osmund's]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Hutchins, John, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, Wakefield: E.P. Pub. Ltd., 1973
Long, E.T., "Dorset church fonts", 44, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, 1923, pp. 62-76; r["References"]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Dorset, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972